Bordeaux Wine Tours
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Bordeaux Wine Tours Reviews
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Trip is good. The only thing is that you need to choose a right day in a right season with good weather....
We had a really great time on this trip. Our guide was excellent and the Chateaus took time to explain the wine making process. St-Emilion is a beautiful little village.
Maybe it was because the weather wasn't so great or that it was only a half day, but we weren't overly impressed with this experience. It might be better to describe it as a wine region tour rather than a wine tasting, although there were two wineries offering tastings. The overly long explanation of how wine barrels were made was a bit tedious and not much time was spent understanding the wine itself. To be fair, it's a budget priced tour so if all you want is to get out of the city of Bordeaux and see a vineyard or two, then this is probably a great tour. If you want to taste wine and understand how the different flavours have evolved, then maybe pay a bit more and you'll need a whole day to get further out of town.
The tour was lovely. The pickup in the center city of Bordeaux was convenient. The tour guide was very nice and spoke three languages! Saint Emilion and the vineyards that we visited were also very nice. The guide at Chateau Soutard was very informed and passionate about wine making.
A good value. Be prepared to walk - around the city of Bordeaux and in the village of St.Emilion. Lunch was excellent, and must have cost a significant portion of the tour fee. Our guide was pretty knowledgeable and you get to see a decent amount of scenery on the trip from Bordeaux to St.Emilion. There were running translations in French and English which kept our guide quite busy. It was an extended day which kept us busy. We drank wine in the morning at the museum, wine at lunch, and wine at the chateau. (And of course we sampled wines in stores in St. Emilion on our own euros). At the end of the day, the tourist office is across the street from Maison du Vin, which has great wines to drink at amazingly low prices. A good way to spend the day.
This tour was amazing! Was a small group which gave us plenty of time to ask questions. The staff were excellent and very well informed. Definately do this tour!
our tour guide was absolutely amazing! she was upbeat and informative. the wine we tasted was delicious and the vineyards were beautiful. the only thing that i was disappointed with was the amount of wine we got to taste. on other wine tastings i usually taste around 5 different wines and here we tasted only 3. not a big deal but would have liked to try more.
The Wine and Cheese Introduction was the best I have ever had, and I have done quite a few of these. I am not exactly a novice to wine but I wanted to learn more about Bordeaux wines and that I did. In fact Brigitte conducted such a fabulous "class" that I commented to her that this was the most comprehensive and informative wine tasting I have ever done. Brigitte herself is super knowledgeable of her region and its wines and imparted this information to us in such a manner that was easy to understand and at the same time exciting.
The wine shop where she held the class was filled with a wonderful selection of regional wines and had a fabulous cheese room in the basement. We got to try as many of the cheeses as we wanted to; I fell in love with one of the cheeses and asked the owner where I could get it and he was so gracious; he actually went to the cheese room and cut a piece of the cheese and gave it to me. This event was definitely great value for money and exceeded my expectations on every level.
I enjoyed my time in Bordeaux and I have already made plans to return in the Spring.
Excellent trip, guide very good and 2 great vineyards visited
Great tour with a great guide ! All together a wonderful and instructive day.
Very crowded large bus. Tourism Bureau publicity had said small groups. Hard to hear commentary at chateaux because of group size. Limited wine tasting but of good quality. Chateaux interesting but better to hire car I would suggest so can stop at villages.
St Emilion was beautiful!!
I had a very good experience. Both the wineries were beautiful and the owners were very personable and informative. The information on the bus was interesting the only thing I would have changed was to have a little more time after the tours to walk around and taste. We didn't have a lot of time to buy wine before we had to get back on the bus.
Beautiful town but tour was more focused on history than one would expect for a wine tour. The lunch at the Chateau was the best part - great food and a wonderful setting. Afterwards we went on our own to a wine shop to learn and taste as the rest of the tour was of the historic sites.
Wonderful tour and a great value with visits and tasting to top Chateau. A great tour for new visitors to the Left Bank. The lunch was fantastic and the choice of Chateau just wonderful. All in all just a perfect start to our first visit to Bordeaux.
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